Archery: Steps to Success

Review by John Macandrew, Kingdom of An Tir

Written by Kathleen Haywood and Catherine Lewis

Are you a new archer looking for tips on equipment and shooting form, or perhaps a seasoned shooter looking for a review of the advantages and disadvantages of shooting styles, or lastly a masterbowman looking for that edge to get you to the grandmaster rank? If you fit in any of these groups then the next archery book you read should be "Archery: Steps to Success."

This is an extremely well written and organized book with exceptional illustrations that add perfectly to the text. The book is a little pricey so I would recommend that you either get your SCA group to pick it up or try to find it at the local library.

Some of the wonderful sections in the book are:

Bow tuning,
Equipment selection,
All of the shooting forms with their advantages and disadvantages,
Error analysis and correction and,
drills to help focus your practices on the items you need improvement in.

In my nine years of archery shooting and coaching I have to see a better archery book for training.

(For coaches: Keep your eyes open for "Archery Coaching: Steps to Success.")

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